BahnRadRoute Teuto-Senne

Important note: The signage of the route will be dismantled during the year 2024. You can find the route as a GPX file at the bottom of this page.
The special feature: cycling and train can be ideally combined on the way. This allows you to plan day trips, stage changes, or combined train-bike excursions individually from a fixed location.

The BahnRadRoute Teuto-Senne is a diverse long-distance cycle path that leads you along two railway lines through the cultural landscape of the Teutoburg Forest with its small and large cities.
The route starts either at Osnabrück main station or in the middle of Osnabrück's old town, at St. Peter's Cathedral. You should not miss the Town Hall of the Westphalian Peace on the market square opposite the cathedral! After leaving the Peace City of Osnabrück by bike (or train), you immerse yourself in the mosaic-like forest and meadow landscape of the Osnabrück region. After a break in Bad Iburg or Bad Rothenfelde (tour variations available, see below), you then almost imperceptibly reach the state border from Lower Saxony to North Rhine-Westphalia. But only almost imperceptibly, because this border is noticeably felt by our calves over the crest of the Teutoburg Forest.
Scenically, the diverse mixture of hilly forest scenery and rural meadow plains along the southern edge of the Teutoburg Forest continues. The actual path remains fairly flat throughout, allowing for relaxed cycling. From Bielefeld, you follow the route through the Senne, the sandy plain on the eastern edge of the Westphalian Bay. Throughout the entire route, you move in close proximity to the railway tracks, so you can spontaneously continue your journey by train at one of the numerous train stations. Thus, if you are traveling with children or in changeable weather, you are always on the safe side. The endpoint of the route is the old episcopal city of Paderborn, which impresses not only with its Romanesque-Gothic cathedral and the Imperial Palace. With the three-gabled Town Hall and the Schloss Neuhaus with its baroque garden, there are two pearls of the so-called Weser Renaissance in the Paderborn city area.
Those who want to extend the already very diverse and attractive direct route to Paderborn can also make detours to Bad Iburg, Borgholzhausen, or to downtown Bielefeld.

An overview of tours can also be found in the BahnRadeln brochure.

Attractive package deals can be booked via www.mevelo.de